> On 15 May 2016, at 23:18, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > >>> but eventually typesetting will become a niche and end up in the arts but i >>> will probably not live long enough to see that happen >> >> From the point of computer language design, TeX is not very good. One of the >> pitfalls of macro programming is that it gives the impression of lambda >> calculus efficiency without having it so one ends up spending a lot of time >> figuring out trivialities, which is why eventually was added, I gather. > > it's not that bad .. the tex language has a certain charm that one needs to > get accustomed to (as does metapost) ... and, combined with lua it's even > more fun
Ideally, there should have been only one language with lambda capacity, and better syntax, though it is a problem figuring out what it might be. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
